Package and baggage tie.



V. B. BRIGHT.

PACKAGE AND BAGGAGE TIE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26. ms.

1,251,470. Patented Jan.1, 1918.

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PACKAGE AND IBAGGAGE TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 26, 1916. Serial No. 80,616.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VIRGINIA B. BRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at F ayetteville, in the county of Lincoln and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Package and Baggage Tie, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a metal tie, to which a cord is attached, and said tie is so constructed that any ordinary sized package can be quickly and securely tied upand just as quickly and easily untied, without cutting, or breaking the cord, or injuring the tie-so that both may be used over and over again.

The various parts of the tie are indicated in the accompanying drawing, which is made a part hereof, by the following letters, to wit:

A-A=the shoulders referred to- B-B'=the split tongues, and- C=the hole specified, showing a section of the cord attached to the tie.

The metal part of the tie is all in one piece and may be stamped, or cut, out of any metal desired, and may be of any thickness that may be required. When a tie is required of such weight and thickness that it will not permit of its being stamped, or cut out, it may be molded. In the larger sizes the tie may be used for tying up baggage and large bundles of merchandise.

The drawing is a perspective view of my invention.

In making the tie, two tongues B and B are formed in the body of the tie by cutting around three sides of the tongue and leaving the fourth side intact. With this fourth side acting as a hinge, each tongue is pressed upright till it reaches an angle perpendicular to the body of the tie. Then, leaving about one fourth of each tongue in such perpendicular position, the other three fourths of each is bent over the slot from which it was out until parallel with said slot and about one fourth of its own length above the same and at right-angles with the perpendicular part of the tongue-thus each forms what might be called a shoulder where this right-angle is formed. The two tongues are parallel and point in opposite directions-bringing the two shoulders almost exactly opposite each other.

The tongues have a V-shaped splitstarting at the point of the tongue, where the split is about one fourth of the width of Patented Jan. 1, 1918.

the tongue, it, the split, rapidly recedes in Width to a point at or near the shoulders above described-so that, in tying the package, the cord is made fast by passing it several times around these shoulders and then securing the cord by drawing it through the split in each tongue and pulling it tight toward the apex of the splits at the shoulders. The outer prong of each of the tongues is a fraction shorter than the inner prong. This facilitates the insertion of the cord into the splits.

A hole G is made in the body of the tie through which the cord is attached.

The tie may be in any shape desired so long as the split tongues and the shoulders are provided as herein specified. The accompanying drawing shows a tie shaped something like an artists palette. In this shape there is no superfluous metal, and the extended lobe on the left allows the operator to hold the tie in place with the thumb of his left hand while he wraps the package with his right.

To tie up a packagesay a package of lettersthe tie, with the cord attached, as above specified, is laid flat on the package, near its center, and is held in place with the thumb of the left hand while, with the right hand, the cord is passed around the package, starting away from the operator, and bringing the cord up under the end of the package next to the operator, and 011 to the tie where it is passed around the shoulder of the right hand tongue and then carried, at right-angles, around the side, under the package, from right to left, and on to the tie again when it, the cord, is assed around the shoulder of the left hand tongue and carried, at right-angles, to its last direction, away from the operator, around the package again-and so on, as at first.

When wrapped around the package as many times as desired, the cord is wound around the shoulders of the two tongues and finally pulled down tight in the split of each of the tongues. These splits being in opposite directions, pull against each other, as it were, and hold the cord securely without danger of its coming loose, yet is easily untied when desired, leaving the cord and tie uninjured and ready for service again and again, as stated above.

I claim:

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